Sorry for the delay. Its been a tough month...and in another month it'll be tough again, 1 month from tomorrow: baby brother will arrive...weather pending.
Anyway, yes, we did celebrate Christmas.
And as the famous story goes: what did the girls like best? The giant box from the Disney Store that a bunch of their stuff came in!!!
Our tree with WAY too many gifts under it.
And in the light. Don't be jealous of our tree-topper. That's been our tradition since the first year Daddy and I got a tree together.
The girls came downstairs Christmas morning. Kaylee looked pretty excited about the massive quantities of loot under the tree...
Rowan approached with more caution.
The girls retrieved their stockings and settled on the couch to see what was inside.
Rowan donned her fairy wings almost immediately.
Rowan asked Santa for: boots and a yo-yo. (Yeah we could have gotten off really easy this year!!)
We love our new Hello Kitties.
The girls were even nice enough to give pause to allow Mommy and Daddy to open their gifts.
A snuggle for baby Rudolph.
Kaylee unwrapped her new Tag reader...but wasn't quite sure what to make of it.
But she soon figured it out...and reading is now becoming one of our favorite activities. She is really doing well on that front. Every day, in order to earn privileges to use the Tag reader, Kaylee reads a book with mommy, in which she reads a page and then Mommy reads a page, back in forth. (She even helps Mommy on her pages when Mommy needs help with certain words!)
We were happy with our new princess puzzle too.
But the present that earned the dance around the room was her new Diego
Leapster game.
Then we got dressed and headed down to Grammy &
Grampy's house for round 2.
Kaylee was more than happy to help Auntie Diana unwrap her gifts.
And
Grampy.
Grampy needed some help, Rowan had to tell him who was in his new picture.
Hugs for the Grandparents.
And we did get a little smattering of snow that the girls played in.
Wheeeeee.
Rowan likes to 'help' shovel. I was amazed that the girls lasted as long as they did outside. It was VERY cold.
Anyway, Christmas was, of course, pretty subdued, given the circumstances. The camera was not as 'on' as I usually try to have it be on special occasions. But at least now you have a bit of it.
We went to a gymnastics party last weekend, the girls had a blast...here's Rowan flying high on the zip line.
And bouncing on the trampoline.
She even tackled the inflatable slide, which she normally avoids during her weekly gymnastics class.
Kaylee tackled the climbing wall with her normal cautious determination.
Boing.
Boing.
Kaylee flew on the zipline as well.
And unlike Rowan, Kaylee has no problems conquering the inflatables.
I really have to get more into pictures! What can I say, we're busy:)
